Wusterhausen Trail Museum
 
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| place | Wusterhausen / Dosse |
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Special and regional museum on historical paths through the ages
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| opening | September 2011 |
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| ISIL | DE-MUS-830613 |
| Herbst's house | |
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| place | Wusterhausen / Dosse |
| Construction year | 1764 |
| Coordinates | 52 ° 53 '27 " N , 12 ° 27' 40" E |
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| Refurbishment 2009–2011 | |
The Wusterhausen Trail Museum is a special and regional museum in Wusterhausen / Dosse in the north-west of Brandenburg ( Ostprignitz-Ruppin district ). From the invention of the wheel in the Bronze Age to transit traffic in divided Germany , it is dedicated to historical routes from different eras. In addition to the main themes of routes , traffic and communication , the museum documents the city and regional history of Wusterhausen and illustrates the importance of historical routes for the economic and cultural development of Wusterhausen and the Dosse region.
The museum emerged from the local history museum that existed from 1963 to 1993, which was reopened in September 2011 with the new profile as a trail museum. The topic of "Historical Paths through the Ages" in connection with the local city and regional history is unique and has a regional and supraregional reach.
Wegemuseum
Museum history
The Kyritz County Home Museum was opened in 1963 in the stately Herbst'schen house on the Wusterhausen market square. Consisting of part of the collection of the Prignitzmuseum Heiligengrabe, which was split up in the course of the district reform in 1952 , the Kreisheimatmuseum was a typical museum, the exhibition of which was entirely under the sign of the state-controlled GDR cultural policy. Agricultural implements and tools from dying trades as well as numerous finds from archaeological excavations served as exhibits. Due to the administrative reform in 1993, the museum lost its status as a district museum and its full-time management. In 2000, the Kulturverein Wusterhausen eV was founded, which made a significant contribution to the revival and reorientation as a path museum. After several years of redesigning, the museum reopened in September 2011 with a completely new profile. The redesign as a path museum went hand in hand with a comprehensive renovation of the listed Herbst'schen House.
Permanent exhibition
The exhibition of 300 m² extends over twelve rooms. The chronologically structured tour leads along various paths from the past 3000 years that led through Wusterhausen and the Dosse region. Starting with the prehistoric invention of the wheel, the route leads past the Slavic settlement of the region along the Dosse, the salt trade of the Middle Ages, which connected Wusterhausen with the large Hanseatic cities of the Elbe, to the road construction of the Prussian era and the rapid breakthrough of the automobile around 1900 The last special focus of the exhibition is the topic of transit traffic in divided Germany. The former trunk road 5 between West Berlin and Hamburg (today Bundesstrasse 5), which also ran through Wusterhausen, was the transport axis between the two major German cities until the construction of the A24 motorway in 1982 and has been filled with explosive experiences by residents and transit travelers associated with adventurous escape stories.
Numerous interactive media stations and installations run through the exhibition and enable you to experience the stories of the journeys. Moving eyewitness interviews can be accessed at listening stations. A media bicycle installation shows old films from Wusterhausen. A map terminal with a wealth of historical map material offers in-depth geographic information.
prehistory
19th century
1945 to the present
Special exhibitions
In the adjoining special exhibition area, the Wegemuseum shows in-depth special exhibitions or special exhibitions designed for current occasions at regular intervals and in the old tradition.
Herbst's house
Cultural center
After extensive restoration of the listed building between 2009 and 2011, a cultural, educational and meeting place for the city and the surrounding area was created in the Herbst'schen Haus. The road museum, library and tourist information center are located under its roof. A variety of cultural events take place in the event room, the "Old Shop". The idyllic, historic inner courtyard of the house is ideal for open-air events in summer.
Event room "Alter Laden"
Library Wusterhausen
Inner courtyard of the Herbst's house
House history
After the last big city fire of 1758, in which almost two thirds of Wusterhausen burned down, city treasurer Johann Adolf Werkenthin erected a stately half-timbered building on the remains of the cellar vault of the previous house at a fire in the center of the market square. Even then, the baroque building with its seven window axes and the mighty mansard hipped roof shaped the market square and one of the largest private houses in the city. The courtyard formed by a side wing and adjoining stable and storage buildings is the only baroque ensemble of courtyards in Wusterhausen that has survived today in its entirety. The original baroque front door has been restored several times.
Despite multiple changes of ownership over two centuries, the house always remained in commercial hands. Taken over by the Rettig family, the house finally came into the possession of the Herbst family in 1917, who ran a retail store until 1960. The merchant August Herbst was the last private owner of the house, under whose name the house in Wusterhausen is also known today.
It then served for many years as the domicile of the Kyritz District Home Museum and as a retail space, while the upper floor was used as an apartment building. Up until the year 2000 there was a toy store in what is now the “old shop”.
chronology
| 1764 | Establishment by city treasurer Johann Adolf Werkenthin | |
| around 1765 | Presumably the building took over the function of an east holding . | |
| 1818 | The merchant's wife Ulrike Achilles bought the building from her father Johann Uden. | |
| 1855 | Transfer to the merchant Robert Zillich | |
| 1870-1880 | The spacious, baroque courtyard was divided and provided with a transverse building. | |
| 1885 | Transfer to the merchant Albert Rettig | |
| around 1900 | The hallway was lavishly painted with columns, balustrades and garlands (whitewashed in 1963) and glove maker Potas ran his business in the right part of the house. | |
| 1917 | The building finally passed to the merchant August Herbst and at the same time served as a spacious apartment building on the upper floor and for a long time also housed the apartment of the incumbent mayor. | |
| 1945 | The entrance door was damaged by low-level aircraft fire and poorly repaired. It was not until 1960 that it was professionally restored with the support of the preservation authorities. | |
| 1957-1960 | The master tailor Klawitter had his shop in the right part of the house. Subsequently, several specialist shops of the GDR trade organization changed. | |
| 1960 | The last private shop owner Ludwig Herbst and his family moved to West Germany. The house is still known under his name in Wusterhausen today. | |
| 1963-1993 | Kreisheimatmuseum Kyritz on the ground floor | |
| 1992 | During renovation work, a well packed with natural stone was exposed. | |
| from 2000 | Vacancy and impending deterioration | |
| 2009-2011 | comprehensive renovation of the building | |
| 2011 | The Herbst'sche Haus will be reopened as a cultural center with a road museum, city library, tourist information and event room, the so-called "old shop", based on the sales and business area of the Herbst family. |
literature
- Kerstin Geßner and Annett Dittrich: Of roads and cars. The permanent exhibition in the transition from the local history museum to the Wusterhausen trail museum. In: Yearbook Ostprignitz-Ruppin 2012 , pp. 52–59. http://www.archaeologie-agentur.de/images/stories/052-059_JBOPR12_2-1.pdf